I disagree, strikeouts are tolerated more so now than they were back in the 1960s and '70s. Guys would cut down on their swing with two strikes rather than take a full cut swinging from their heels. The 1977 White Sox didn't have one guy who struck out more than 100 times, Dave Kingman was striking out 156 times in a year and that was abnormally high. Now it is almost expected from power hitters.